Its upgrade time again 125 gallon (48x30x20)

[iani]

Thanks everyone. Yes its a giant efflo on the right side of the tank. Its actually purple tipped with neon green polyps. Over the tank I have 2 tek fixtures, 1 6 bulb and 1 4 bulb fixture making a total of 10x54w. I also just picked up 6 seahorses for my 40 gallon fuge 5 of them are ora seahorses.

 

[iani]

 

[iani]

Tank is clearing

 

[ahayes13]

very nice. also the seahorses are so cute !

 

[Mr.A]

seahorses are awesome. What do you have in the new tank? Also, can you show us close ups of your corals please. Tank looks great!

 

[iani]

Here are a few close ups.

Garf bonsai

Eddy's purple monster

Ice fire echinata

Pink Lemonade

 

[coral88]

I don't see any pics

 

[iani]

Its working just fine for me.

 

[coral88]

Ok I was having a problem on my end
Nice collection, very happy looking sps you got there,
What bulbs are you running???

 

[iani]

3 ati blue plus
2 super actinic
3 11k aquablue special
1 ati procolor
1 fiji purple

 

[iani]

Added a bit more rock

 

[iani]

Stitched two shots to expose the tank and stand right. Here are my crappy photoshop skills.

 

[ConcreteReefer]

love the stand.. love the dims..
hate the lights

Get a powermodule and be done with it!!

I'm using a 6 bulb powermodule over my 120g.. I thought it wasn't going to be enough light and had it around 8" above waterline, I was W-R-O-N-G.. My corals were starting to bleach so I had to move it up to about 18".

btw- Do you have any finished equipment shots? sump? skimmer? plumbing?

That stand is beautiful... good job

 

[Rickyrooz]

Very nice, what were the dimensions of your old tank?

 

[revhtree]

I absolutely love this tank! It is gorgeous!

 

[roshi719]

VERY clean looking, I'm jealous.

 

[JuniorMC8704]

that just makes me that much more excited about getting my new tank.

How do you like the T5's for lighting? I was thinking about 3 400watt Radiums in Luminarch reflectors, and T5 suppliments.

I would really like the go the T5 route, but am affraid it wont be enough for the SPS. Also in the past I have seen paly's that have much more color variations visible under halides, that were not seen under the T5's.

Any thoughts on this?

BTW, the tank looks great, and i LOVE the stand.

 

[iani]

Concretereefer, I know. I much rather have had a 10 bulb power module, but the cost difference was too extreme since I already had a 6 bulb tek fixture. No finished shots yet. I need to clean the wiring up before I take a shot, haha.

Rickyrooz, the old tank was 48x18x18. I basically gained just on the depth (width).

revhtree and roshi719, thanks. It turned out better than expected.

JuniorMC8704, I really like my t5s. However it is lacking on actinic pop. Most colors are just as good at MH's, however some do not show up as well. I have MH's on my frag tank so I can see a big difference when I move things from one tank to the other. T5s are more than enough for sps though, I've never had a problem with t5s and sps. They are much more efficient than MH's so less wattage = more wattage with MH's.

 

[ConcreteReefer]

T5's-
If you go with the right ballast/reflector combo are as good if not better than MH..

I actually had to move my light up because it was just to much.

 

[iani]

Ok, I went ahead and ordered this from reefgeek today. They had it on clearance for an unbelieveable price. I got the last one.

http://www.aquariumobsessed.com/mm5...&Product_Code=SF-SLTH12x54&Category_Code=SFT5

http://www.sfiligoi.it/files/download/STEALTH ING.pdf